Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1478631875f1671b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 3fbc360461434efebda2ba9e1a981b49 SHA-1: 752a21f6c07aa34f6691f1628eb8f1ca19169c93 SHA-256: 1478631875f1671be5fed337b53e1d188f14d98c8c000248758008eae2861a8b
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, which is a critical finding. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, and the presence of an embedded script payload further supports this. The primary goal is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload, making it a classic exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
6786e542708aeeb864c969d9730ed9a806d8e3d0d216d9c32222b65e296a6b6c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101333 bytes

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